Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
To be productive, the cost of procrastination must be greater than the cost of action.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
Conversely, if an experience is not satisfying, we have little reason to repeat it.
Habits can be completed in a few seconds but continue to impact your behavior for minutes or hours afterward.
Each day is made up of many moments, but it is really a few habitual choices that determine the path you take.
If you can make your good habits more convenient, you’ll more likely to follow through on them.
We do it because motion allows us to feel like we’re making progress without running the risk of failure.
Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself.
It’s friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run.
If history serve as a guide, the opportunities of the future will be more attractive than those of today.
One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it.
If you want to make a habit a big part of your life, make the cue a big part of your environment.
You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment.
Your habits are how you embody your identity.
Each chunk of information that is memorized opens up the mental space for more effortful thinking.
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated.
Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.